The Dog Flew far

In this day and age, with all of our electronic devices being connected, you really have to be careful about what you watch on your phone. It is very easy to accidentaly have your phone and TV connect with each other and have whatever it is you’re watching in private on your phone, pop up on the TV in front of everyone…loud and clear. Although it might be quick and easy to get that video up on the TV, it’s not always so quick and easy to get it off the TV. This happened to my poor hubby this morning. He was in the bedroom, me in the living room, and suddenly the TV turns on and the video began to play…LOUD AND CLEAR! It was a video with a dog frolicking through a field with music playing that sounded a bit inspirational. All I could hear from the bedroom was, “SORRY!” To be honest, I’m good with inspirational dog videos.

Inspired by Art: Fighting Goliath is a collection of art throughout the ages, around the story of David. This volume focuses on the epic battle with Goliath.

These amazing sculptures, paintings, etchings, and manuscript illustrations inspired the author to write The David Chronicles, a series of three volumes, the first of which is the novel Rise to Power, where she imagines the battle with Goliath.

Besides being an artist and having worked as an architect, she taught art history, and this collection served as the basis for a semester-long course analyzing the contrasts in viewpoints around the biblical story.

The book is arranged not by artist, nor by artistic style or era, but rather by moment-by-moment in the story, blow–by-blow, as imagined by various artists: Michelangelo, Bernini, Dali, Adrea del Verrocchio, Donatello, Titian, Rembrandt, Lorenzo Ghiberti, Rubens, Degas, and Barry Moser, to name but a few.

Read the novel voted Science Fiction Book of the Year*, now in development as a major motion picture. Nomad is the first book in a new four-part epic from million-copy bestseller Matthew Mather.

Humanity only has days to prepare. Can one family survive?

SOMETHING MASSIVE IS COMING, and it’s heading for Earth. That’s what astronomer Ben Rollins is told by NASA after being dragged out of bed in the middle of the night. His first instinct is to call his daughter, Jessica, who’s vacationing in Italy with his wife.

“It’s a hundred times bigger than the sun,” Ben tells them. “Somehow we can’t see it yet, and we don’t know what it is, but they’re calling it Nomad–and in just months, the Earth may be destroyed.”

But how did they miss detecting it until now?

The world erupts into chaos as the end approaches, and Ben discovers his wife and daughter are trapped in Europe.

The key to Nomad’s mystery–and humanity’s ultimate survival–rests in the answers Ben pieces together from his old Cold War-era research papers, in the midst of a desperate scramble across continents to find his family before Nomad swallows the planet.

Enjoy another series featuring more of New York Times bestselling Texas romance author Jean Brashear’s much-loved Gallagher family — TEXAS HEROES: The Gallaghers of Sweetgrass Springs.

When scandal and an ambitious prosecutor wreck talented chef Scarlett Ross’s life and she learns of a grandmother she never knew she had, she flees the notoriety to pay an anonymous visit to Sweetgrass Springs, Texas, a small town kept alive only by her grandmother’s determination and carried on the strong shoulders of sexy Texas cowboy Ian McLaren.

There she is surprised to discover a yearning to sink roots deep in the Texas Hill Country — but she is terrified that the secrets she’s hiding will endanger everyone she’s come to love.

For Nicholas Colt, October 21 is an unlucky day. A day for nightmares. It always has been, and this year is no exception.

Someone is brutally murdering the offspring of an anonymous sperm donor, and Colt’s missing client is next on the list. With less than four days to find the young man — and, with a pair of drug-addicted study partners, a violent motorcycle gang, a stalker ex-girlfriend, and a host of other obstacles standing in his way — Colt faces the most challenging and deadly case of his life.